I do sys admin/engineering work in a Windows environment. PowerShell is what got me this job, and together with my programming experience allows me to keep up with my seniors who have been in their positions for a decade or more.
It also helps us all make a good team. They have the knowledge and experience advantage (though I'm catching up), I have the skills to figure out how to implement/automate the plans in a way that doesn't involve days of mind numbing manual actions.
Unfortunately, yes.
You're looking at AI upscaling as a shortcut to the end result you want: your book. But from experience, jumping to the end of something robs you of the joy and accomplishment of doing the hard work to get there.
Instead ask if the book really needs illustrations. If it does, wouldn't taking the time to do them right be better? It would also give you more time to revise the other aspects of it.
If this is something you're passionate about, don't douse water on that fire by cheating to the end. If it's not something you're passionate about, why do it in your free time to begin with? If you think you'll somehow make money off it, you'll have plenty more hurdles to go through that can't be AI'd away. If it's just a passion project, use that fucking passion.
I understand the intense desire to just be great at something without putting all the effort in. But there really are no shortcuts to this shit. The main advantage that other people have over you on this is that they started earlier, so they have more time put into it already.
In ddg, you can customize your options and on the right there's a button/box to get the specific ddg link with them all pre-set. Replace the normal ddg "link" for your search bar with that one and you don't need to worry about cookies or settings following you.
On top of that, I personally set my default youtube app to be newpipe, so if I'm just casually browsing lemmy or elsewhere I can click a youtube link and figure out what it is, even watch it if I want, without it effecting my normal account and watch history.
If I like the video and want more like it, I'll share to the Youtube (Revanced) app and finish it there.
In college I always named my router Skynet.
Don't know why anyone would want to fart into a bong
Maybe. It would entirely depend on my level of comfort with the other person, and their personality.
I've had wealthier friends, who I did not have a sexual relationship with, pay for my share of a hotel room for a convention. A different one treated me out to a (cheap for a concert, but not cheap for me) concert. I had known those friends for at least a year in both of those cases and had no worries about them or their personalities.
As another commentor said, what happens if you have a falling out while you're over there?
Also, depending on your relationship, and the personality of the person paying, they could use this as a form of control. They could effectively treat this as entirely their vacation, and you're just the human sex toy they brought along who's going to stay in the room the whole time until they want your "services". Or you're just the trophy boytoy to hang off her arm and look pretty. You wouldn't have much room to push back on it.
Or this could just be someone living in a different income bracket to you trying to do something nice for you that isn't a big expense for them. I personally think that's less likely with a trip to the Maldives, but it's not impossible.
Or this could be them trying to turn the FWB situation into something more serious.
As with most things in relationships, even FWB, it would probably be worth talking with them. "Hey, I'm happy that you'd do this for me, but I've never done something like this before. Is there anything you're looking for from me as your plus one?"
Translation: Creating a recurring meeting to look into changing to the our processes to have better PR while not costing any money.
Roughly translated from management speak: We'll need to come back to this specific aspect of the discussion on its pwn later, so we can more directly focus on this one part.
Could be blowing smoke to get someone stuck on something to let go so the meeting can move on, or a legitimate "this part deserves its own dedicated discussion".
There's a decent bit of good "steering" of groups and discussions that comes out of management speak, but the word choice and phrasing makes it needlessly opaque, and very "fellow kids".
Sometimes the opaqueness can be intentional too, to avoid making someone feel like their idea has been dismissed, or to slow down somebody while they parse what was just said so they can't keep rapid fire talking and dominating the conversation.
That's fucking terrible.
Unfortunately in my roughly a decade in IT, I've only seen a vendor failing to deliver a core feature tank a contract once. It's completely fucking absurd how many systems/softwares/products are in use because contracts were signed based off specific feature promises, that then were never completed.
Does this shit happen in other industries? I have a hard time imagining some company signing a contract for delivery trucks that for instance, ran on diesel, the truck manufacturer saying they didn't have those yet but would by time of delivery, delivering gas trucks anyway, and the company that ordered them going "Well I guess we'll just suck it up. No need to have legal get a chunk of our money back. No need to stop doing business with that truck manufacturer. We'll just make the fleet mechanics retrofit them with no extra budget, time, or headcount. Let's go do lines in the executive bathroom."
But that's what seems to happen with software products all the fucking time.
Because lemmy is much smaller, you tend to rub into the same users more often. So if someone comes off as abrasive, blocking them can have a notable impact on your experience.
Dogpiling is worse, and it can pay to know what instance the community you're posting in is, as the games community on hexbear is going to be different than on world.
It's much more "left" than reddit. Notably, while this instance, lemmy.ml, is the flagship instance run by the lead dev, the "ml" stands for marxist-leninist.
A big part of the shift from lemmy to piefed seems to be that piefed has a faster development cadence, and that the developers of lemmy are openly tankies.
The flagship Lemmy instance, as in ran by the devs, is lemmy.ml. The ml stands for marxist-leninist. The lead dev regularly bans people from the entire instance for so much as questioning Chinese and Russian ~~propaganda~~ news sources, and they have many many other very controversial takes. There are some comms across the fediverse that document a lot of this, like !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
From a sticky there, the lead dev Dessalines denies the Tiananmen Square massacre and praises the Uyghur genocide.
So far as I'm aware, the piefed devs haven't been involved in any drama, and aren't posting hardline shit about their political beliefs either.